- It’s really sad how many pieces of our digital past have disappeared. As new versions of things come out, people tend to simply discard the old thing.
- This is… absolutely atrocious and it is also completely off-topic for this site.
- Author here: Would it not be fair to say that black and white WIMP with an emphasis on desktop publishing is an imitation of Xerox, especially when they were paying for the privilege?
- KODust 491 days ago"influenced by" is fair. "imitation" is pejorative; it implies no -- or substantially inferior -- original work, which is certainly not the case. Don't take my word for it; use an Alto simulator and a Mac 128k. Those are very different experiences!
- bmonkey325 492 days agoDespite my strong apple tendencies - I really like the piece and critique of the period and what GEM had and what could have been. I thought GEM was going to bring something in the PC and Atari ST world but it never happened. Sigh. Instead we got a sea of bland and inspired windows PCs.
- For the further history of Acorn and ARM:
- How do you prefer to mirror? Do you just use wget or something else?
- Yep, just wget. Here's my wget-mirror shell function, newlines added for readability:
wget-mirror () { wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent --content-disposition --header="Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:119.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0" --restrict-file-names="windows,nocontrol" -e robots=off --no-check-certificate "$1" }
- The main thing is, ibrowse doesn’t support HTML5 or CSS. So, anything in xhtml and html4 are good to go, but nothing newer.
- I apologize. There's no way for me to edit the submission :-(
- I apologize. There's no way for me to edit the submission :-(
- I wrote about the history of WordStar: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/arrogant-difficult-powerful